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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 946 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KUMYKS , a See also:

people of See also:Turkish stock in See also:Caucasia, occupying the Kumyk See also:plateau in See also:north See also:Daghestan and See also:south See also:Terek, and the lands bordering the See also:Caspian. It is supposed that See also:Ptolemy knew them under the name of Kami and Kamaks. Various explorers see in them descendants of the See also:Khazars. A. See also:Vambery supposes that they settled in their See also:present quarters during the flourishing See also:period of the Khazar See also:kingdom in the 8th See also:century. It is certain that some Kabardians also settled later. The Russians built forts in their territory in 1559 and under See also:Peter I. Having See also:long been more civilized than the surrounding Caucasian mountaineers, the Kumyks have always enjoyed some respect among them. The upper terraces of the Kumyk plateau, which the Kumyks occupy, leaving its See also:lower parts to the Nogai See also:Tatars, are very fertile.

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